Immune Responses to Bacillus Calmette–Guérin Vaccination: Why Do They Fail to Protect against Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

JI Moliva, J Turner, JB Torrelles - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is the current
leading cause of death due to a single infectious organism. Although curable, the broad …

Multi-stage subunit vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis: an alternative to the BCG vaccine or a BCG-prime boost?

F Khademi, M Derakhshan… - Expert review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: More than two billion people are latently infected with Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Most tuberculosis (TB)-subunit vaccines currently in various stages of clinical …

Dendritic cell-based vaccine efficacy: aiming for hot spots

GA Pizzurro, MM Barrio - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Many approaches for cancer immunotherapy have targeted dendritic cells (DCs), directly or
indirectly, for the induction of antitumor immune responses. DC-based vaccines have been …

Chitosan nanoparticles containing fusion protein (Hspx–PPE44–EsxV) and resiquimod adjuvant (HPERC) as a novel booster vaccine for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

R Hoseinpur, A Hasani, B Baradaran… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study attempted to explore the immunogenicity of chitosan nanoparticles containing
fusion protein (Hspx–PPE44–EsxV; HPE) and resiquimod adjuvant (HPERC) in BALB/c …

Comparative Genomics and Proteomic Analysis of Four Non-tuberculous Mycobacterium Species and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex: Occurrence of Shared …

N Gcebe, A Michel, NC Gey van Pittius… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The Esx and PE/PPE families of proteins are among the most immunodominant
mycobacterial antigens and have thus been the focus of research to develop vaccines and …

Enhancement of the effect of BCG vaccine against tuberculosis using DDA/TDB liposomes containing a fusion protein of HspX, PPE44, and EsxV

D Mansury, K Ghazvini, S Amel Jamehdar… - Artificial Cells …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Tuberculosis has been a major health problem worldwide for years; therefore, it is important
to develop and produce an effective vaccine against this disease. In this study, the …

Role of ATP-small heat shock protein interaction in human diseases

SK Nandi, AK Panda, A Chakraborty… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an important fuel of life for humans and Mycobacterium
species. Its potential role in modulating cellular functions and implications in systemic …

HspX protein as a candidate vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis: an overview

A Yousefi-Avarvand, M Tafaghodi, S Soleimanpour… - Frontiers in Biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb). This disease with two million deaths per year has the highest mortality …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence protein ESAT-6 influences M1/M2 polarization and macrophage apoptosis to regulate tuberculosis progression

F Sun, J Li, L Cao, C Yan - Genes & Genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by infection with
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and it remains one of the major threats to human health …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing immunogenicity of novel multistage subunit vaccine of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using PLGA: DDA hybrid nanoparticles and MPLA …

F Khademi, A Yousefi, M Derakhshan… - Iranian Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective (s): A new strategy in recent studies is using effective tuberculosis (TB) subunit
vaccines combined with appropriate carriers and adjuvants which have shown promising …